Ink-jet printing

During the last 20 years a digital revolution has occurred that has touched everyone's life. We are now surrounded by digital telephones, audio equipment, cameras, camcorders, TV, laser barcode readers, etc., and many homes possess a computer with access to the Internet. Digital technology has greatly affected many industries including the textile printing market, not only by the introduction of full-width jet printing machines but also in every aspect of conventional print production, from the design stage, through coloration and recipe formulation, screen manufacture and print paste preparation to the final control of the printing machine itself.

Ink-jet printers have become very well established in both offices and homes for printing text and graphical data (particularly following the widespread adoption of digital cameras) and indeed the quality of the prints from such machine scan now rival that of laser printers.